Christina G's A Space Odyssey Review

As I was watching the movie, the only thing that I truly enjoyed was the cinematography and the music to go along with it. The way that Kubrick would use the wide-angle lense for different scenes showed his creativity and ambition to be different from other directors. The music paralleled to the intensity of the film in that it was calm and relaxing, yet also powerful. During the movie, I did not completely understand what was happening. I did not realize until our class discussion that it the dialogue of the movie was a minor detail and for the majority of the movie I was caught up in trying to comprehend the dialogue. After our discussion in class, I began to realize the true message of the movie - that life revolves around knowledge of things unknown. Kubrick compelled this message through the movie by keeping things at a distance and making sure that the movie could not be completely comprehended. I can understand now why the movie is a classic.